Alfie Kohn The Homework Myth Quotes

#1. Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#2. Love is a conquest. Love is a war.
Here is what I think of love.

Marissa Meyer

#3. I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.

Rory McIlroy

#4. The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.

Charles Duke

#5. Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.

Cassandra Clare

#6. It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#7. I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

James Gray

#8. I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

Joan Allen

#9. Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.

Bill Maher

#10. But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Oscar Wilde

#11. We should not forget Adam Smith's perspicuous observation that the "masters of mankind" - in his day, the merchants and manufacturers of England - never cease to pursue their "vile maxim": "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people.

Noam Chomsky

#12. Under the authority of a language that had been carefully expurgated so that it was no longer directly named, sex was taken charge of, tracked down as it were, by a discourse that aimed to allow it no obscurity, no respite.

Michel Foucault

#13. I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

Burt Lancaster